McDonald's Dubai

Published: 16 June 2013

I love Dubai. Very friendly to westerners. Plus, fast food fans need not do without as many of the popular chains are represented. Checking out the McDonald's in the Dubai Mall next door to the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa. Let's take a look at what they have to offer:

The core roster is similar, although logically for a Muslim country they are light on beef items. Also, the heavy Indian population also skews away from beef products. Still, the first four were beef:

Big Mac

Big Tasty

Quarter Pounder with Cheese

McRoyale

Chicken Big Mac

McChicken

Spicy McChicken

McArabia (not shown, but a plate of middle eastern bread and meat)

Grand Chicken Classic

Grand Chicken Deluxe

Grand Chicken Special

6pc Chicken McNuggets

Filet-O-Fish

Veggie Burger

Double Cheeseburger (below - hey, one more beef item!)

Very hard to make out on the McSavers menu above, but the second item is the McAloo Tikki. This is a potato burger very popular in India.

Lastly, here is something for "a limited time offer": The French. What the heck kind of meat is that? I think it is beef, just a strange picture. Actually, it is somewhat of a running local joke here in Dubai that McDonald's has been rolling out a different "International" burger each month. Before The French was The Mexican, and there have been others.